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Insidious, Out of the Further--Overview: Odious and fartherMost horror films deal with the fully dead or not fully dead: the undead. The dead haunt you in new homes, with a past, or castles/mansions,...
Mutiny, Review: Seize on the Thai seasThat’s cheating! When you have a ship as the main locale/vessel of your film, a crew of 20+ and not one of them rebels, how can you call it a mutiny? There are...
Batwara 1947, Review: Religion divides, humanity unitesSyed Asghar Wajahat Rizvi was one year-old when the Partition (Batwara) took place, creating India and Pakistan as two countries. It is not...
India’s FFI flags off the OscarraceThe most coveted award in international cinema, the Oscar, is in its 99th year, and the Academy, as it does every year, invites entries from countries around the...
Ohh My Dog, Overview: Chase to the cutAn anadrome. No, nothing to do with an aerodrome. An anadrome is a word that still means something when it is spelt backwards. Like wolf and flow. This film is...
Bhai Tera Star Hai, Review: Par sirf ek * star haiFlashback. Imagination. Hallucination. Intelligence report. Classified. Top secret. For your eyes only. Password protected. From the OTTers Club. ...
Max, Min & Meowzaki, Review: Cats, Crying and ConflictWhat are the chances that you will understand what the title means? 50%. Max is obviously a name, usually an abbreviation of Maxim or...
The Odyssey, Review: After 4 sci-fi films, Nolan time travels to 800 BC, to film a Greek epic poem, with panache In school, we were introduced to an epic poet, called Homer. Two of his...
Rao Bahadur, Review: Jao BahadurA: What is this all about? Why have you mis-spelt the word Rao as ‘Jao’?B. The film is 169 minutes long, so don’t expect an answer right away.Rao/Row/Raow/Raao.Write...
MIFF 2026, 11: Film fare at the 19th MIFF, Part IIThat’s A Wrap/Shinjini Raval and Sunny Hinduja/India/2025/22.48 mins/English-Hindi/Short fictionA man and a woman. Argument, confrontation, quarrel....
